digital living

April 29, 2011

A Customer Service Nightmare: Resolving Trademark and Personal Reputation in a Limited Name Space

Yesterday, I threw a public hissy fit when I found out that Tumblr’s customer service had acted on a trademark request from a company called Zephoria who had written them to ask that they release my account to them. (Tumblr has since apologized and given me my identity back.) In some ways, I feel really badly for Tumblr – and all other small social media companies – because brokering these issues is not easy.

danah boyd, customer service, trademarks, social media, online identity, reputation, digital living

April 21, 2011

Is Personal Data the Next Killer App for the Web?

We are living in an unprecedented era in which personal data about our digital identity, our online activity, our financial dealings, our geo-location and even our Social Graph – is widely available across the Web. If you think about the amount of data that you create on a daily basis – and the amount that can be tracked and recorded – the figure is truly staggering.

Dominic Basulto, Web, digital living, data, personal data, online identity

April 19, 2011

Nothing Comes between Me and My Computer

Forget the mouse and keyboard, and even the swipe, pinch and touch - the next generation of human-computer interactions will be the gesture, the body movement and even thoughts from the human brain.

Dominic Basulto, interfaces, computers, technology, singularity, brain-machine interface, digital living

March 29, 2011

Color Commentary: The End of the Friend

Dominic Basulto, social media, friends, digital living

March 14, 2011

A Wider Digital Perspective (Part 3: New Business Models)

How does digital communication affect business outside marketing?

In this three-part article I will try to explain the changes I’m seeing in the convergence of emerging digital communication, branding and business.

Read part 1 here.

Helge Tennø, digital living, digital marketing, free, business models

March 11, 2011

Geek Revenue: The Cultural Industries in the Age of Digital Piracy on Vimeo

Video essay by Simon Lindgren of Umea University (Sweden) - includes a Skype interview with me.

Nancy Baym, digital living, piracy

March 4, 2011

40% of All Tweets Are Now Composed on Mobile Devices

Guest Post by: George Cathcart

The way we consume information is fundamentally shifting towards an ‘always-on’ world where our mobile phones are the first port of call for access to the web.

Twitter, mobile, George Cathcart, social media, digital living

March 2, 2011

Books without Borders: The Digital Infinite Library

It almost goes without saying that the recent demise of bookseller Borders, which is in the process of liquidating more than 200 of its superstores around the nation, was inevitable. The rise of digital book culture has made many of the traditional trappings of a physical bookstore presence obsolete.

books, Dominic Basulto, digital living, digital content

February 7, 2011

The Real "Internet of Things"

Every time I encounter the term "The Internet of Things", I feel a tinge of disappointment which arises from knowing what it means but concurrently hoping it meant something else. Something that is inherently implied in its name, at least to the uninitiated.